Today marks a defining moment for Veeam and for our industry
I am thrilled to announce that Veeam has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti AI – bringing together two category leaders to deliver something the market has been waiting for: a unified platform that brings data protection, security, governance, privacy, and AI trust into one intelligent command center to accelerate safe AI at scale.
Together, Veeam and Securiti will give customers new capabilities to access all their structured and unstructured data to:
- Understand their data everywhere with a unified, real-time data command graph of their entire data estate.
- Secure their AI and data by unifying the best DSPM capabilities, including compliance, data governance, access controls, and data privacy, with the leading security and data capabilities you trust from Veeam.
- Recover and rollback AI and data with precision. Restoring clean data instantly across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, apps, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. Address rogue AI behavior by tracing, auditing, and rolling back with precision without disrupting unaffected systems.
- Unleash the value of data for AI by rapidly creating trusted AI agents, based on secured data, and creating enterprise-wide search in minutes that respects entitlements with privacy controls and runtime guardrails built in. You can deploy the best-of-breed AI pipelines with confidence.
I am excited to welcome the incredible Securiti AI team to Veeam. And I equally delighted that Rehan Jalil, their visionary CEO, will continue shaping the future with us as Veeam’s President of Security and AI.
A New Frontier
Securiti AI is the pioneer of the Data Command Center. Powered by a unique knowledge graph built for scale and efficiency, the Data Command Center unifies data intelligence and security controls for data spread across public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its built-in and extensible Agentic AI framework automates the key functions for data intelligence, data security and controls, while its Gencore platform enables safe enterprise AI search and data-powered agents. Securiti AI is recognized as a top leader in DSPM, data access governance, AI security, and privacy.
What makes this acquisition transformational is the combination of Veeam’s trusted data resilience capabilities – backup, recovery, portability, security, and intelligence – with Securiti AI’s powerful Data Command Graph and Agentic AI capabilities that will extend the deep data intelligence and security controls in a unified way. Together, customers gain the ability to accelerate safe AI at scale: one trusted data graph spanning primary and secondary data, and one command center to understand, secure, recover, and unleash the value of data safely.
Why Does This Matter Now
For decades, enterprises focused almost exclusively on deriving value from structured data, such as databases, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms, because it was the only data they could practically use at scale. Meanwhile, they’ve been sitting on a treasure trove of unstructured data, including emails, documents, PDFs, presentations, and customer interactions. These represent 70-90% of all enterprise data, and the volume is forecasted to triple by 2029. Yet it has remained dark, ungoverned, and unusable because they couldn’t process it safely at scale.
AI changes everything. What was once sitting idle is now their most valuable asset. AI can finally extract insights, power intelligent search, train models, and fuel automation from both unstructured and structured data at machine speed.
However, the paradox is that enterprises are racing to harness this treasure trove yet are struggling to do so safely. Customer Personally Identifiable Information (PII) resides in old emails. Regulated data in file shares. Sensitive Intellectual Property (IP) in legacy documents. All opening up both opportunity and risk.
It’s why studies show 80–90% of AI projects fail – not because the models don’t work, but because the data behind them is incomplete, inconsistent, or non-compliant.
The problem is that no one sees the whole picture – production, backups, structured and unstructured data, across apps, clouds, SaaS, and endpoints – because these tools weren’t designed to work together.
How AI Forces a Complete Rethink of the Old Model
Organizations must reap the benefits of agentic AI but are all hitting the same roadblocks. Their existing data and security infrastructure was not built for AI at scale. AI is now an active participant, not just a passive consumer of data. Agentic AI systems can autonomously search, decide, transact, and trigger actions across applications, APIs, and infrastructure.
5 critical shifts create transformational opportunity, and simultaneously expose new risks and gaps traditional tools can’t address:
- Security is now data-centric.
Perimeter security models assume that data remains within defined boundaries, but AI interacts with data everywhere at machine speed. You must classify it automatically, close exposures proactively, stop exfiltration in real time, and enable forensic recovery in minutes with complete lineage across pipelines.
- AI moves at warp speed across unstructured and structured data.
An AI agent can query thousands of unstructured files in seconds. Your systems may log it, but you can’t tell what happened or stop it in real time. You need unified visibility across every data touchpoint, from production and backups to AI pipelines, with continuous risk scoring and real-time classification that’s accurate.
- Identity and data access controls are crucial for ensuring the safety of AI.
Your AI applications draw from dozens of sources, including documents, emails, and knowledge bases. Which person’s entitlements should apply? Traditional perimeter security is limited here. Identity-aware governance must work at machine speed, automatically enforcing entitlements across live systems, backups, and AI deployments.
- Security and governance must be continuous.
AI models drift daily. They need real-time classification, lineage, and policy enforcement across all data types, or they’re untrustworthy from day one. Compliance can’t rely on quarterly audits; it requires continuous proof with automated evidence generation on demand.
- Recovery is now about AI as much as it’s about data.
When an AI model gets poisoned or hallucinates customer data, you need surgical recovery and the ability to roll back specific datasets, embeddings, or model weights without breaking your AI infrastructure, with immutable recovery and cleanroom validation built in.
Data must be continuously understood, secured, recovered, and unleashed at AI speed. Security, governance, and recovery can no longer operate in isolation.
This creates growing pressure from boards to enable AI transformation safely, responsibly, and with provable control. The trade-off has become familiar: move quickly and generate risk or move slowly and fall behind. But this is a false choice.
Introducing the New Era of Accelerating Safe AI at Scale
And that’s precisely the moment this acquisition was designed for.
Veeam will deliver the only platform that unifies your entire data estate with a Data Command Graph for primary and secondary, structured and unstructured, across every cloud, SaaS app, vector database, and backup repository, and infuses security at the core to enable you to accelerate AI for your organization safely.
With Veeam + Securiti AI, organizations will be able to:
- Understand data everywhere: Creating a unified, real-time data command graph of your entire data estate. One living graph with automatic classification, real-time lineage, and continuous risk scoring. You finally know what you have, where it resides, who can access it, and how and where it’s being used.
- Secure your data and AI: Unifying the best DSPM capabilities, including compliance, data governance and access controls, and data privacy in the market with the leading security capabilities you trust from Veeam, including proactive malware hunting, AI-threat detection, and incident response capabilities across the entire data and AI lifecycle from production to secondary.
- Recover and rollback AI and data with precision: Restore clean data up to 5x faster than competitors across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. Recover anything—from full environments to granular objects—with automated efficiency. Stop threats like data exfiltration and ransomware in real-time, isolate issues, and restore only what’s needed, including non-compromised AI models. When AI agents take unintended actions, models are poisoned, or drift, deliver precision rollback across the entire AI and data lifecycle—agents, models, pipelines, datasets, files, and full environments to avoid disruption. Cleanroom validation and immutable recovery ensure data integrity and reliability. Broad platform support, data portability, and zero-trust security deliver reliable resilience, anywhere, anytime.
- Unleash the value of data for AI: Rapidly create trusted AI pipelines and agents with out-of-the-box frameworks and create enterprise-wide search in minutes that respects entitlements, with built-in privacy controls and runtime guardrails. Meaning AI teams get governed, classified, and trusted data from primary and secondary sources without getting stuck with data challenges.
When resilience, security, and AI converge, the tension between speed and safety disappears. You get both, allowing you to accelerate safe AI at scale.
What This Means for Every Leader
For Boards and CEOs: Transformation at speed. Embrace AI transformation, allow CEOs to innovate faster but safely, ultimately providing more value for their customers.
For CIOs, IT, and infrastructure teams: Simplicity and Trust. Replace multiple overlapping tools with one platform where security, compliance, and data teams share the same view. Recovery drops from weeks to hours. When the business asks to deploy AI, you say “yes” – because your teams are already aligned.
For CISOs and Security/Privacy/Compliance teams: Visibility and Control. A real-time view of data risk, privacy and compliance across production, backups, and AI systems – with policy and recovery working as one. You can see the AI attack surface in real-time, including which models touched customer PII, where embeddings reside, and which agents have accessed sensitive data. When ransomware hits, you recover in hours with forensic proof.
For CDOs and AI leaders: Acceleration with Assurance. Governed, lineage-rich data pipelines that make AI both safe and fast. You ship AI copilots and AI agents in minutes, not months, because governance and compliance accelerate delivery instead of blocking it.
For every business: Confidence. To innovate boldly, recover quickly, and comply effortlessly.
The Possibilities Ahead
With this acquisition, Veeam and Securiti AI together will help every organization understand, secure, recover, and unleash the value of all their data – confidently and responsibly.
Because in the age of AI, trust is the ultimate currency.
We’ll keep your business running. We’ll keep your data trusted. We’ll help you accelerate safe AI at scale.
PS: Join us on November 19 for the global launch event to demonstrate how this unified platform reshapes what’s possible with data, security, and AI. Please register here to be part of it.